Samsung TV integration

[chevyman142000 (Jeff DeWolfe)]

Samsung Smart TV Support

There are discussions about integrating some kind of home AV equipment to ST. There’s a lot of discussion about IR blasters to control some devices (which, if I could find a good Zigbee/z-wave IR blaster that plays well with my setup, I’ll order it in a heartbeat). As a (free) alternative for those with smart TVs would be to see if they have an API to send commands to. I have Samsung SmartTVs and I know they do have some level of support, as they allow apps on the same network to control them. I thought I’d share (what little) I know to see if anyone would have any suggestions or be interested in moving this along. During today’s Office Hours, it was announced that they’ll soon enable limited support for the ST hub to control devices within the network, thereby removing most security …